Kate is a writer, academic and researcher specialising in travel accounts, colonial writing, botanic gardens and lexicography. She is Emeritus Fellow of the School of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences at the University of Roehampton, Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and Honorary Research Associate at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
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Kate’s latest book is Palace of Palms: Tropical Dreams and the Making of Kew (Picador, 2020). It was chosen as a Times and New Statesman Book of the Year. The paperback was released in 2021.
